12-letter words containing o, u, g
- diégo-suarez — a seaport on N Madagascar.
- disanalogous — not analogous
- discongruity — incongruity.
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- dishonouring — Present participle of dishonour.
- disingenuous — lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere: Her excuse was rather disingenuous.
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dole bludger — a person who collects unemployment benefits but makes no serious effort to get work.
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double bogey — a score of two strokes over par on a hole.
- double eagle — a gold coin of the U.S., issued from 1849 to 1933, equal to 2 eagles or 20 dollars.
- double fugue — a fugue with two subjects developed simultaneously.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.
- double-edged — having two cutting edges, as a razor blade.
- double-glaze — If someone double-glazes a house or its windows, they fit windows that have two layers of glass which keeps the inside of the house warmer and quieter.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
- douglas hurd — a third-class university degree
- douglas-home — Alexander Frederick (Baron Home of the Hirsel) 1903–1995, British statesman and politician: prime minister 1963–64.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
- draughtproof — That prevents the access of draughts.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- drug holiday — a brief period during which a patient stops taking a prescribed medication, especially an antidepressant, to recover some normal functions, reduce side effects, or maintain sensitivity to the drug.
- dry mounting — the technique of fastening a print, photograph, or the like to a board by using a heated thermoplastic tissue as an adhesive.
- dry tortugas — a group of eight coral islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico: part of Florida
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
- dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
- dusky grouse — blue grouse.
- earth tongue — any of a group of fungi of the phylum Ascomycota, characterized by a tongue-shaped fruiting body, found on decaying logs and damp soil.
- eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- egg foo yung — a dish of a pancake-shaped omelet containing a mixture of chopped foods.
- eggdrop soup — a soup made by stirring beaten eggs into a simmering broth.
- electron gun — a heated cathode with an associated system of electrodes and coils for producing and focusing a beam of electrons, used esp in cathode-ray tubes
- ellenborough — Earl of, title of Edward Law. 1780–1871, British colonial administrator: governor general of India (1742–44)
- elytrigerous — having elytra
- embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
- encountering — Present participle of encounter.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- endogenously — In an endogenous manner.
- engine house — a building in which engines, as fire engines, railroad locomotives, etc., are housed
- engine mount — The engine mount is the part of the chassis on which an engine is supported.
- equivocating — Present participle of equivocate.